Best The Portal episodes

2:23:04 | Jan 25th, 2020

Roger Penrose is arguably the most important living descendent of Albert Einstein’s school of geometric physics. In this episode of The Portal, we avoid the usual questions put to roger about quantum ...Show More

1:51:25 | Jul 30th, 2020

One of the pillars of the American Dream has been that of seeing your children go to college. And, for the many families that can't afford the cost of soaring university tuitions, a new controversial ...Show More

3:11:13 | Jun 11th, 2020

Stephon Alexander is a first class jazz musician as well as a first rate physicist and a professor at Brown University. As the New President of the National Society of Black Physicists, Eric sits down...Show More

3:20:38 | May 22nd, 2020

Investor Balaji Srinivasan is a highly original thinker in Silicon Valley on Biotech to Blockchain and everything in between. Most recently, he was quite early in warning us about the Corona virus and...Show More

2:18:08 | Apr 30th, 2020

It is said that there is not one American dream but many, and few have lived more than JD Vance. Growing up in Appalachia on the border between poverty and the lower working class, JD knew economic fe...Show More

2:18:17 | Dec 17th, 2019

In this episode, Eric sits down with Tyler Cowen to discuss how/why a Harvard educated chess prodigy would choose a commuter school to launch a stealth attack on the self-satisfied economic establishm...Show More

2:52:45 | Jul 17th, 2019

Welcome to The Portal. Episode 1 is a conversation with Peter Thiel.Please subscribe to The Portal anywhere you listen to podcasts, and leave us a rating and review in Apple Podcasts.

1:06:39 | Dec 1st, 2019

What happened to the Mathematical and Scientific art movement after MC Escher? It went underground.  In this episode of the Portal, Eric begins tracking down the leaders of this hidden movement; one ...Show More